Political Bankruptcy

I’ve had a short stay in the UK for meetings on my way back to D.C. from Nairobi. Despite being astonishingly expensive, the UK remains a lovely country, except for the lack of any classical liberal political movement (rather like the US). Here’s the latest from the Tory Party: “Cameron Speech Backs Marriage.”

It included such gems as

Conservative leader David Cameron has strongly defended marriage in a speech to the party’s Welsh spring conference in Cardiff.

and

On Saturday assembly Conservative leader Nick Bourne has said the party will give every household £20 of low energy light bulbs if they win power in May’s poll.

I’m all for marriage and even energy-saving light bulbs,* but it’s a sign of how far the Nanny State mentality has gone that they’ve been put at the cutting edge of a party’s political platform.

*When left left to voluntary choices in civil society, that is.